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You know the year was 1900, |
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15 years ago, |
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Death came howling on the ocean |
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Death calls, you gotta go |
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Galveston had a sea wall |
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To keep the water down |
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And a high tide from the ocean |
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Spread the water over the town |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm, |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm, |
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Wasn't that a mighty storm, |
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It blew the people all away |
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You know the trumpets gave them warning, |
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You'd better leave this place, |
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Now no one thought of leaving, |
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'Til Death stared them in the face |
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And the trains they all were loaded |
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The people were all leaving town, |
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The trestles gave way to the water |
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And the trains they went on down, now |
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chorus |
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Rain it was a fallin' |
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Thunder began to roll |
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Lightning flashed like hellfire |
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The wind began to blow |
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And the seas began to rollin' |
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And the ships they could not stand |
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And I heard a captain crying |
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Good God save a drownin' man |
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Death, your hands are clammy |
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You got them on my knee |
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You come and took my mother, |
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Won't you come back for me? |
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Death you cruel master, |
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When the wind began to blow |
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Rode in on a team of horses |
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Cried oh Death won't you let me go? |
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chorus x2 |
